[Guide/Video] Min-Maxing DPS, Stat / Gear Check

I'm running with 27 crit rating right now (from Matrix Cube), stacking full power instead. Seems to work out just fine. I'm usually 1-3 in damage when I'm not guarding. I'm not even augmented in 66s and my melee bonus damage is like 810. I normally run 5/36/5 but I've been running full madness (7/2/36) for the past couple of days. Been pretty lost since 2.0 dropped though tbh. I'm still running power crystals in my main and offhand for example, and I'm not really sure if thats BiS anymore. I suspect it isn't.

Cycao, that 0/23/23 build looks really interesting. One of the things I really like about Madness is the 45% crit chance on Discharge, so it feels like by running Madness you're less crit dependent than in Deception, which as I said with the stacking power thing is good for me.

I'm running with 27 crit rating right now (from Matrix Cube), stacking full power instead. Seems to work out just fine. I'm usually 1-3 in damage when I'm not guarding. I'm not even augmented in 66s and my melee bonus damage is like 810. I normally run 5/36/5 but I've been running full madness (7/2/36) for the past couple of days. Been pretty lost since 2.0 dropped though tbh. I'm still running power crystals in my main and offhand for example, and I'm not really sure if thats BiS anymore. I suspect it isn't.

Cycao, that 0/23/23 build looks really interesting. One of the things I really like about Madness is the 45% crit chance on Discharge, so it feels like by running Madness you're less crit dependent than in Deception, which as I said with the stacking power thing is good for me.

Specifically for Deception:Deception needs crit.

20% buffed is too low. I've played around with it and I do not like it at all. It might be good for just gimping one guy off somewhere, but the consistency is severely lacking. With 25% (As Deception), I'm able to get more overall damage in and my swaps to targets are guaranteed criticals.

A year ago if you told me to go 20% buffed, I might've agreed. Now? Not really.

20% buffed is too low. I've played around with it and I do not like it at all. It might be good for just gimping one guy off somewhere, but the consistency is severely lacking. With 25% (As Deception), I'm able to get more overall damage in and my swaps to targets are guaranteed criticals.

A year ago if you told me to go 20% buffed, I might've agreed. Now? Not really.

Yeah...So uh, I think you're right. I decided to spend like 1200 WZ comms on Crit mods and try it out via the ship dummy. What I came out with was pretty surprising to me:

I stopped at 3 minutes exactly but it carried over to 3:07. Had no idea that by adding 4% crit the results would increase so much (I should note that this was in my PvP gear and no adrenals were used since that's irrelevant where WZs are concerned.) Wonder if I should continue to add crit to that 25% you're talking about. Hmm. I mean, if the parses were like ~40-60 DPS close to each other, I might chalk it up to RNG and run more tests. But damn, the 0 crit one isn't even close.

http://i.imgur.com/5C2YuZJ.jpg was the only game I played on that toon today. Outdamaged a sniper, gunslinger, and smash mara. Low objective score was because I was the only one on the freecasting commando. Zzz. Definitely looking at upping the crit by a percent or two more though, like Shinka says.

No worries, I won't play objective police. Was just curious if you had maxed gear.

Hmm, around 23% crit appeared to be the sweet spot to me so far. Or alternatively going for max AP.
However, I should have the mods and enhancements to give 25% crit another try and will probably do so after transfers are done.

I am currently pvp'ing with Madness assassin and I find it my favorite spec. The more posts that I read the more differing % requirments I see. One forum will say you must have 110% Accuracy while others say that's too high. As for crit% some say 25% is a must and others say power. As we speak I mainly PVP as I have said and I have 25% crit and 106% accuracy.

So my question is should I continue to chase those "Ideal" numbers ? Thoughts ?

One forum will say you must have 110% Accuracy while others say that's too high. As for crit% some say 25% is a must and others say power. As we speak I mainly PVP as I have said and I have 25% crit and 106% accuracy.

So my question is should I continue to chase those "Ideal" numbers ? Thoughts ?

If that's your melee accuracy and you're PvPing, 106% is way too high. At 95% accuracy you're going to hit almost every time with everything but saber strike. The OP says 95-97% and I think that's perfect.

If that's your melee accuracy and you're PvPing, 106% is way too high. At 95% accuracy you're going to hit almost every time with everything but saber strike. The OP says 95-97% and I think that's perfect.

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